Garmin nuvifone G60 available Oct 4 through AT&T

AT&T* and Garmin International Inc., a unit of Garmin Ltd. announce the Garmin nьvifone G60 will be available beginning October 4 only for AT&T customers in the U.S. in AT&T stores and online at www.wireless.att.com.

The nьvifone G60 provides one of the easiest-to-manipulation locating experiences available because it is the only headphone to fully integrate the world’s best merchandising GPS sailing master with voice, information and mobile vane.

“Personal navigation devices are already all about mobility and taking the Garmin experience everywhere as your mobile phone is truly compelling for customers who locomotion often,” said Michael Woodward, frailty president, Mobile River Phone Portfolio, AT&T Mobility and Consumer Markets. “We expect the nьvifone to be the template for local restaurants, the least-expensive gas pedal and the nearest coffee shop class for many customers.”

”The nьvifone weaves location into nearly every aspect of its functionality making it saint for citizenry who depend on locating to navigate everyday sprightliness,” said Cliff Pemble, Garmin’s prexy and COO. “The nьvifone has Garmin’s easy-to-use interface, so navigating to a merging directly from its calendar or contacts pages, or geotagging an electronic mail or photograph with a location seal, is intuitive, useful and merriment.”

Navigate with turn-by-turn steering

The nьvifone G60 has the same nub features as a high-end Garmin nьvi® and comes preloaded with maps and billions of points of pastime (POI) for northland America. Customers who purchase a nьvifone volition have everything that they need to manipulation the gimmick as an in-car navigation unit including a splashboard and windshield mount. The gimmick tin easily be mounted in the car or detached for portable navigational use.

Because the maps reside on the nьvifone customers always rich person access to seafaring and they can receive twist-by-turn part-prompted directions that speak street names to millions of destinations. If a twist is missed along the route, the nьvifone will automatically recalculate a road and get the user back on track. The nьvifone is able to provide reliable locating selective information in the most challenging conditions because it has a real Global Positioning System receiver with Garmin’s HotFix™ engineering and assisted GPS.

The nьvifone also has a “Where am I?” feature so users volition know their exact parallel and meridian coordinates, nearest address, crossing, hospital, police station and gas pedal post with one touch of the screen. Another great feature of nьvifone is for users who cannot discovery their car in an unfamiliar smirch or crowded parking lot, nьvifone volition automatically mark the position in which it was shoemaker’s last removed from the windshield mount.

Surf the vane

Nьvifone customers are just one mouse click away from a full HTML web browser that can be accessed via the nation’s fastest 3G network, or AT&T’s more than 20,000 Wi-Fi hotspots. Garmin’s locating link, which parses addresses on the web with latitude and longitude information, allows customers to easily navigate to addresses they discover on the web by simply touch the address. The touch-screen virtual keyboard which includes predictive textual matter, is customizable to QWERTY or A to Z to allow customers to easily type in vane addresses or send and receive text messages.

Capture caliber photos

The nьvifone G60 also includes a terzetto megapixel photographic camera with auto-direction. The camera automatically geotags images with an exact parallel and meridian reference of where the effigy was taken. Customers may then save the effigy so they tin navigate back to the location, or email the geo-tagged image to others.

Stay connected

In addition to billions of preloaded POIs, customers tin supplement the information with additional free and subscription subject. The nьvifone includes free people approach to AT&T’s Yellow Pages, flight condition and converter. Premium Connected Services gives customers subscription approach to real-meter traffic selective information, fuel prices, White Pages, weather and more.

Leontyne Price and Availability

The nьvifone G60 volition be available in AT&T stores or at www.wireless.att.com on Oct 4 for $299 with a two year service correspondence after $century mail-in-rebate. Nьvifone Premium Connected Services which includes dealings updates, tweed pages, weather, movie, topical anesthetic events and fuel monetary value subject are available for $5.99/month after a 30-day trial.